Holyoke Enterprise
Transcribed by Carol Moore
April 22, 1937
Holyoke, Colorado

SERVICES ARE HELD FOR T. H. ROCKWELL

Former Resident Of Pleasant Valley Dies In Holyoke From Heart Failure

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the Methodist church here for Thomas H. Rockwell, 65, former resident of the Pleasant Valley community, who died Saturday morning at the family home in Holyoke. Rev. A.P. Walden, pastor of the United Brethren church of Lamar, Nebraska, officiated, and burial was made in the Pleasant Valley cemetery.

Mr. Rockwell had been a resident of Phillips County since 1915, although he had lived here for three years prior to that time, having come here first in 1907.

He was born at Seymour, Iowa, November 26, 1870 and was married to Pearl Stroud at Seymour in 1901. After coming to Phillips County they lived north of Holyoke for three years, and then moved to the Pleasant Valley community, where they made their home until two years ago when they moved to Holyoke.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Pearl Rockwell, two daughters, Mrs. Henry (Alma) Lutze of Holyoke, and Mrs. Earl (Joyce) Adams of Amherst, one son, M.O. Rockwell of Holyoke, four grandchildren, three sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Babbitt of Cambridge, Nebraska, Mrs. Nancy Ferris and Mrs. Abbie Heckerson, both of Seymour, Iowa, and two brothers, Ezra Rockwell of Conrad, Iowa, and William E. Rockwell of Seymour.

CARD OF THANKS
We want to express our sincere thanks for the great kindness and assistance given us by our many friends and neighbors during the long illness and death of our beloved husband and father. We also wish to thank all for their lovely flowers. - Mrs. T.H. Rockwell, Mr. and Mrs. M.O. Rockwell, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lutze, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adams